Glashieburn School

Overview

Inspectors visited Glashieburn School in October 2023, excluding the nursery class which was recently inspected by the Care Inspectorate. The report highlights a school where staff promote positive relationships and inclusive learning, resulting in happy and engaged children. Inspectors expressed confidence in the school’s capacity to continue improving and will make no further visits.

Strengths

• Staff promote positive relationships and create an inclusive learning environment, ensuring children are "happy, well-behaved and engaged in their learning."
• The senior leadership team provides "strong and supportive leadership," fostering a collaborative approach to supporting improvement.
• The whole staff team effectively supports children with barriers to learning, enabling them to "make good progress, improve their wellbeing and achieve well."
• There is a "positive start to developing learning through play in the early stages."

Areas to improve

• Continue to develop approaches to high-quality learning and teaching, specifically by using assessment information more clearly to ensure learning is planned at the right level of difficulty.
• Continue to raise attainment and achievement for learners across the school.
• Extend opportunities for children and encourage parents and families to be more involved in planning, leading, and reviewing aspects of school improvement.

Safeguarding

The report evaluates "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" as "very good," noting that staff create an inclusive environment that helps children improve their wellbeing.